The child's mind : its growth and training being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching / by W.E. Urwick.

  • Urwick, W. E. (William Eddowes)
Date:
1907
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Credit: The child's mind : its growth and training being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching / by W.E. Urwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the function which it will have to fulfil, and both of these are already plain. 1. It will find scope for the development of bodily growth, during the years when growth is most rapid, by organized physical exercises. It will be a gross mistake to confine the aim of this physical develop- ment to military ends ; it must be based on a wider foundation—namely, the need of the State for healthy, fully developed citizens. 2. It will continue without breach the work of the primary school in English and elementary mathematics, and provide, partly by reading, partly by ordinary classes, a course in history, geography, and civics, as a preparation for citizenship and for the appreciation of the vast opportunities and interests offered by that wider environment of leisure spoken of in the first chapter. 3. Whether the commercial instinct has already shown itself before the age of fourteen or not, it very soon asserts its strength when once a boy or girl is face to face with actual daily work. There is no daily work so humble, no employment so mono- tonous, as not to suggest some piece of knowledge, some line of study, which will lead to greater effi- ciency and advancement—which, in a word, appeals to the learner because ‘ it will pay.’ It may be shorthand, book-keeping, typewriting, or a modern language, or manual work, or some branch of ele- mentary science ; or, for girls, any of the branches of domestic economy or hygiene. Whatever these needs are—and they will vary in different localities—it